Purpose - This paper seeks to provide a quantitative and qualitative description of global research output on “electronic resources in libraries”, with particular reference to electronic books, electronic journals and electronic thesis published during 1994-17. Design/Methodology/Approach - The data for the study (2086 publications) was sourced from Scopus database covering period 1994-2017. The research output in the subject from Scopus database was analyzed on a series of bibliometric measures like average annual growth, citations per paper, international collaborative papers, relative citation index, activity index, top productive countries, organizations, authors, journals, and highly cited papers. Findings - ‘E-resources in libraries’ is fast emerging as a subject of research within the domain of library and information science. The global research in the subject across top 15 most productive countries in the world is highly skewed. The USA, the top ranking country leads with 46.06% global publications share whereas the rest of 14 top productive countries – including India as the second ranking most productive country (8.10% share) – are distant cousins accounting for their publication share in single digits. The top 25 most productive journals with 15 to 126 papers each accounted for 58.42% (867) of total 1484 papers reported in journals. Only 17 paper (0.81% of 2086 output)) received high citations from 62 to 166 citations per paper during 1994-17. These 17 highly cited papers accounted for 1502 citations, with an average of 88.35 citations per paper. Among the electronic resources, the major emphasis was on electronic books, followed by electronic journals, electronic thesis & dissertations, audio & videos resources and electronic reports during 1994-17. The major areas of research focus as identified from keywords are: overall management of electronic resources, electronic resources & its various types, types of libraries, acquisition, development, management and preservation, information storage & retrieval, information processing, information services, user education & user studies, copyright and licensing. Originality/value – This is the first study of its kind that provides a quantitative and qualitative description of research studies on ‘e-resources in libraries’.

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“图书馆电子资源”全球研究：1994-2017年科学计量评估

目的——本文旨在对“图书馆电子资源”的全球研究成果进行定量和定性描述，特别是 1994-17 年期间出版的电子书籍、电子期刊和电子论文。设计/方法/方法 - 研究数据（2086 篇出版物）来自涵盖 1994-2017 年的 Scopus 数据库。Scopus 数据库中该学科的研究成果根据一系列文献计量指标进行分析，如平均年增长率、每篇论文被引次数、国际合作论文、相对引文指数、活动指数、生产力最高的国家、组织、作者、期刊和高被引文件。调查结果 - “图书馆电子资源”正在迅速成为图书馆和信息科学领域的一个研究课题。世界上前 15 个生产力最高的国家对该主题的全球研究是高度倾斜的。排名第一的国家美国以 46.06% 的全球出版物份额领先，而其余 14 个生产力最高的国家——包括印度作为排名第二的生产力最高的国家（8.10%）——是远亲，它们的出版份额为个位数。15 至 126 篇论文数量排名前 25 位的期刊占期刊报告的 1484 篇论文总数的 58.42% (867)。在 1994-17 年间，只有 17 篇论文（2086 篇产出的 0.81%）获得了高引用，从每篇论文 62 到 166 次引用。这17篇高被引论文共被引用1502次，平均每篇被引用88.35次。在电子资源中，以电子图书为主，其次是电子期刊，1994-17 年期间的电子论文和学位论文、音频和视频资源和电子报告。从关键词确定的主要研究领域有：电子资源综合管理、电子资源及其各类、图书馆类型、获取、开发、管理与保存、信息存储与检索、信息处理、信息服务、用户教育和用户研究、版权和许可。原创性/价值——这是同类研究中首次对“图书馆电子资源”的研究进行定量和定性描述。电子资源及其各种类型、类型的图书馆、获取、开发、管理和保存、信息存储和检索、信息处理、信息服务、用户教育和用户研究、版权和许可。原创性/价值——这是同类研究中首次对“图书馆电子资源”的研究进行定量和定性描述。电子资源及其各种类型、类型的图书馆、获取、开发、管理和保存、信息存储和检索、信息处理、信息服务、用户教育和用户研究、版权和许可。原创性/价值——这是同类研究中首次对“图书馆电子资源”的研究进行定量和定性描述。